I would like to boot and run Windows 8 with kvm or xen while I'm running Debian Wheezy. Actually I have installed Windows 8 on the external USB disk and Debian Wheezy on the hard disk sata. I'm tryng ...

I want to replace Windows Server 2012 R2 and Hyper-V on my homeserver with CentOS and KVM. My plan is to virtualize one Windows 8.1 machine and several smaller Linux machines like on Hyper-V, there is ...

I'm currently using 5 public IPV4 addresses on a physical machine running Ubuntu Server, which I intend to replace with new hardware running Proxmox.
I'll do a P2V of the current Ubuntu install into ...

I am trying to share files between Linux host and Windows guest and I came across the link:
Use virt-manager to share files between Linux host and Windows guest?
As suggested in the third answer, I ...

I run another Linux instance inside KVM on my laptop.
When I suspend-to-ram the laptop and wake it up again, the guest Linux starts consuming 100% CPU for some time (maybe proportional to the sleep ...

I am running a KVM server (Ubuntu 14.04) and would like to take snapshots of my guests. I was reading how about how to do that in this article. It seemed as if I should be able to take a snapshot of a ...

I haven't been able to find a solution this as of yet. I'm not very experienced in IPTables so any support you can provide will be appreciated.
I have a server with a few VMs on there. The main node ...

How can I configure a KVM guest running CentOS to allow passwordless console access from the hypervisor? I want to be able to use the following command to log straight in to the VM from the hypervisor ...

I am new to virt-manager.
After having configured a virtual network (new interface virbr0) with 2 VMs that should be able to communicate, I discovered that most ports are filtered.
For example, the ...

I had read What is virtualization and studied basics of KVM virtualization and terms. not only sitting infront of PC and installing three or four guest OSes is there any other things i can do with KVM ...

I have only 2 VM's in one of the SSD hard disk server, Hard disk size was just 120 GB. I have assigned 32 GB for each VM's but now there is only 1 GB space left in /var/lib/vz. While listing the size ...

I am B.tech student iam totally confused with the topic virtualization. but i selected linux virtualization security as a project in my college. please guide me. i tried in google but i found so many ...

We have a bunch of computers in our school, which are used by many students and some of them are really having fun in messing around with the system.
However it's not possible to restrict access to ...

I have three VMs running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with 8 GB RAM, each of the VMs has 3 GB allocated, and I also run a 512 MB VM. If we also consider the guest OS's memory usage (usually 1.5 GB due ...

I am looking to replicate multiple KVM servers from one data center to another data center. What steps with specific commands to be used to replicate one server so I can use that for others. Thanks ...

In order to run a virtual machine, VirtualBox tells me to disable the KVM kernel module. I googled around and found out that KVM is included in the qemu-*-packages, but none of them is/was installed ...

On a CentOS 6.5 host, I have a couple of guests - Ubuntu 12.04 and CentOS 6.5.
The Ubuntu guest is generating mcast traffic that is visible via a tcpdump on the br3 interface. It is also visible on ...

I'm trying to set up a VM using libvirt and KVM through virt-manager (and virsh command line) with hugepages support and I get an error when enabling the option in the domain XML. Don't know where the ...

I was configuring kvm on my laptop which has ubuntu 14.04 as the host OS. I added a Fedora guest OS using the virt-manager and it worked fine.
However, after I rebooted the virtual machine, the guest ...

I have setup a kvm win7 guest on a debian host. It's been up and running for a while now, but I had not done much with it. What I had done (for sure) was to download putty.
Today I wanted to try and ...

I am following the following guide on installing my first KVM HV. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM
I thing I do not understand is the bit about bridge network setup. It states its optional, but what ...

I want to test the disk IO performance like read, write, random read, random write and so on both in physical machine and VMs (with aufs file system).
Also I want to test the throughput performance in ...

I'm trying to configure the VGA Passthrough on the Debian SID because I want to use Debian on the first monitor and Windows 7/8 on the other one. I have tried with XEN and with KVM but in both case I ...